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Show Another Chinese revolt against foreign for-eign domination similar to the Boxer rising of twenty-five years ago Is a possible outcome of the present antj-foreign antj-foreign demonstrtions, but not immediately im-mediately probable, H. G. W. Wood-head, Wood-head, an Englishman, editor of the Peking and Tientsin Times and the China Year Book, said on his arrival in New York. Closeted in the shadowy death cell in the county jail at Chicago, a chamber cham-ber he has occupied through three periods of terror of death, Russell T. Scott, convicted slayer of Joseph Mourer, is daily and for long periods undergoing tests by psychiartrists. The defense hopes to convince a jury that Scott has become insance since sentence of death was passed upon him and escape the rope via the same route taken by Gene Geary, a notorious notor-ious killer. Mayor Rolph of San Francisco conferred con-ferred with President Palmer of the Fleet corporation on the purchase of the Pacific-Argentine-Brazil line and the Pacific-Australian line, both of which are now operated out of west coast ports for the shipping board by Swayne & Hoyt. No decision was reached. News of the death of Willinm Jennings Jen-nings Bryan at Dayton, Tenn., came to Washington with stunning suddenness sudden-ness and at a time when his name was blazing in headlines much as it did at the height of his political career ca-reer twenty years ago. His efforts at Dayton, where he had fought with great spirit over the question of evolution, evo-lution, had given friends here the impression im-pression that he was in vigorous health, and it had been freely predicted predict-ed that his voice would ring out when the next congress assembled in a movement to throw into senate and house debate the cause for which he had fought in Tennessee. The new $60,000,000 Chicago Union station, covering thirty five acres and used by four railroads has been formally for-mally opened six weeks after some of , its facilities began to function. Ranking Rank-ing with the Grand Central and Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania stations in New York, as the largest railway depots in the country, the station has accommodations for 300 trains daily, for 50,000 passengers and 400 tons of baggage. Federal legislation abolishing all radio broadcasting of advertising will be sought at the next session of congress, con-gress, Sol Bloom of New York announced an-nounced prior to sailing for a trip to England and France. 'TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events -of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pre-I Pre-I pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader , WESTERN EPITOME After nearly three days had been consumed in selecting a Jury, nine men and three women were impaneled impanel-ed at Los Angeles to hear evidence concerning the alleged plotting of three men to kidnap Mary Pickford creen star, and hold her for $200,000 ransom. Court adjourned until the testimony is started. Burled for eighteen days beneath tons of debris, the body of Chrissie Rlcker, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morrill Rlcker of Neihart, Mont., was recovered from the accumulation of muck that flooded the ravine below the Silver Dyke mine on July 10th, when the dam broke after being weakened by earthquake shocks. Mrs. May Putnam Christ, 58, South Dakota suffrage worker, in 1912 a delegate to the Democratic national convention is dead at the home of her daughter at Pasadena, Calif. Turgatee, Oregon and vicinity were covered with a sheet of water a foot deep, which swept over the lowland, washing out the tracks of the Oregon-Washington Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company to the aggregate of about one and a half miles. The greatest damage was done at Nelson and Wea-therby. Wea-therby. No loss of life has been reported. re-ported. William D. Brown, 99-year-old California Cali-fornia pioneer and said to be the oldest old-est Shriner in the world, died at Berkely, Calif. He was born in Charlottesville, Char-lottesville, Va., and would have reached his one hundredth birthday on December 4 of this year. Applicants for licenses to drive automobiles au-tomobiles in California must submit evidence of their mental and physical fitness under the terms of the law passed by the last legislature which became effective July 24th. The new automobile law also forbids the use of "speed traps" as a mean of determining determin-ing the rate at which a machine is traveling. The "trap," used for many years, was a method of timing the . ... npeed of a machine between two arbitrary ar-bitrary points on the state highway. GENERAL i An Important corps in New York's great white collar working army raised rais-ed the standard of revolt. The municipal muni-cipal engineers, 3500 strong and representing rep-resenting the largest single aggregation aggrega-tion of their profession in the world, outside of military establishments, completed an organization which has for its object improvement of a salary and workng conditions "comparable with the dignity, training and responsibility respon-sibility of the position." Mrs. Guinvere Sinclair Gould, the mystery woman who worsook a chorus chor-us position on Broadway to live with the late George J. Gould for ten years prior to the death of his wife, astonished aston-ished her friends by becoming the bride of George St. John Broderick, Viscount Dunsford, at New York. He is the oldest son and heir of the Earl of Middleton. Tax reduction to the amount of at least $500,000,000, with exemption of all taxes on incomes of 5000 or less and elimination of the miscellaneous and inheritance taxes, was urged at Washington by Senator Copeland, Democrat, New York. He advocated reduction In surtaxes to 10 per cent. Sixteen persons were injured, none Fifteen hundred prohibition agents will lose their jobs not later than October Oc-tober 15, In the biggest shake-up in the enforcement service since the enactment en-actment of the Volstead act. A vast majority of the forty-eight state administrators ad-ministrators will be among those to go. No more than 900 will be appoint- eJ to the new force with which it is hoped to make the nation completely dry. Hundreds were paic-stricken and a whole north section of Chicago was shaken when a gasoline barge of the Texas company, on which were 90,-000 90,-000 gallons, exploded with a terrific and terrifying blast and a roar of flames which leaped 400 feet into the air. The barge, known as the Reliable, Re-liable, was moored at the time In the north branch of the river just off the oil company's north side plant and storage property. seriously, when the New England Elk special, running as second section of Santa Fe train No. 10 was derailed by a washout seventeen miles east of Gallup, N. M. Less than four hours before he was to he executed Russell Scott was saved sav-ed from the gallows for the second time within a week when Judge Joseph Jos-eph B. David convened a special session ses-sion of court at Chicago and issued a writ of habeas corpus staying the execution until time had been given to Inquire into the condemned man's inily. FOREIGN . Edgar Addison Bancroft, American ambassador to Japan, died at Karui-zawa. Karui-zawa. Ambassador Bancroft was taken tak-en ill at Karuizawa, a popular mountain moun-tain resort in central Japan, where he was spending the summer, about three weeks ago. At first it was thought he was suffering from indigestion, indi-gestion, but his trouble later was diagnosed di-agnosed as a small duodenal ulcer. The death is announced of the noted not-ed painter Leon Augustin Lhermitte, one of France's foremost landscape artists, and a member of the institute. Prediction that the churches of the world, including the church of Rome, would evenutally work in interdenom-ination interdenom-ination union with one another, was made by Bishop William T. Manning of the Episcopal diocese of New York before he left Montreal on his vacation, vaca-tion, A Reuter's Canton dispatch says a Russian, General Borodin, has been appointed adviser to the Canton government, gov-ernment, succeeding Robert S. Norman, Nor-man, an American. (Mr. Norman Is from Oakland, Calif., and was legal adviser to the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen, head of the Canton government.) The budget for the fiscal year 1926, as submitted to the legislature at Manila, places the government's expenditure ex-penditure at $34,500,000, while the income in-come is estimated at $35,000,000, leaving leav-ing a surplus of approximately half a million. The largest single item of expense is for education, amounting to approximately $9,000,000. The second phase of the evacuation of the Ruhr, which has been occupied by allied troops since January 11, 1923, began with the departure of troops garrisoned at Essen. Complete evacuation of the Ruhr is to be concluded con-cluded by July 31, when the Ruhr will be definitely handed back to the German Ger-man authorities in accordance with the London agreement. Fifteen persons were killed and hundreds reported injured when the packed Melbourne, Australia, veranda of a moving picture theatre collapsed. The spectators were watching a parade pa-rade on Bourke street. The World Federation of Educational Educa-tional Associations took initial steps at Edenburgh, Scotland to put into operation the organization's plan for future world peace and understanding by adopting a series of resolutions recommending courses of study that will present to students a full conception con-ception of internationalism. France is faced with the possibility of a general bank strike by the end of next week. Taking advantage of the increased business caused by new 4 per cent guaranteed loan, the employees em-ployees of one of the largest Paris banks have gone on strike because the management refused to grant increases in-creases in pay, and the employees of other banks have called meetings to decide whether to join the movement. Bank employees in Marseilles are al- i ready on strike and the movement shows signs of gaining in Alvignon, I Toulon and other cities. |